[CMake] Suppressing Windows console in Qt app

clinton at elemtech.com clinton at elemtech.com
Mon Mar 24 10:54:14 EDT 2008


On Monday 24 March 2008 7:45:57 am Matthew Smith wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> When I build my Qt 4 app (QTM) using CMake on Windows Vista and then run
> it from a prompt, the prompt does not come back as it does with normal
> Windows GUI apps; it behaves as if it's running a console-based
> application.  If you press Ctrl+C, it kills the program.  If you run it
> from Explorer, it opens a prompt window but doesn't give you a prompt,
> and similarly you can kill QTM by closing the window.  When I build
> using qmake, I do not have this problem; it just gives me the prompt
> back.  Does anyone know how to fix this?
>
> Regards,
>
> Matt Smith

Use WIN32 in your ADD_EXECUTABLE command.
You can see http://www.cmake.org/HTML/CMake-2.4.html for more details.

Clint


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